Inscription
[Whistler's butterfly signature] upper left composition, in plate. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower left tab, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "mk 30665" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. "B.M." (Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge collector's stamp) verso, brown stamped ink (Lugt 394). (Henry Harper Benedict collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink (Lugt 1298).
Provenance
Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, probably before 1902, (Lugt 394). Knoedler & Co., New York. Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], (Lugt 1298). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1931
- Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 141, vi/vi.
- 2012
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 144, state vii/vii.
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